Communication Sciences and Disorders

Join us for our weekly professional seminar, commemorating the lasting impact of the Wendell Johnson Speech and Hearing Center. Topics range all dimensions of communicative studies and disorders (Audiology, Hearing Science, Speech Science, Speech Pathology, Language Acquisition, etc.). Noon to 1 p.m., Fridays at the Wendell Johnson Speech and Hearing Center, 250 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, IA Presentations are in-person with some also simultaneously streamed on Zoom. (https://uiowa.zoom.us/j...

Title: Promoting Hearing Aid Use and Self-Advocacy in Adolescents Who Are Hard of Hearing in Research and Clinical Service Delivery Speakers: Elizabeth Walker, Ph. D., CCC-A/SLP, University of Iowa and Meaghan Foody, M.S., CCC-SLP, University of Iowa Anecdotal data indicate that children who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) demonstrate decreased hearing aid (HA) use when they reach adolescence; however, empirical data on factors that influence HA use in adolescence is lacking. Furthermore...

Ritwik Banerji is an experimental ethnographer, interactive media artist, and improviser. He is currently an assistant professor of anthropology at Iowa State University. His scholarship appears in Jazz and Culture, Anthropology in Action, Jazz Perspectives, The Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music Cultures, and Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, among other venues.

In a world full of noise, we often try listening to something: conversations with colleagues and family, music in our headphones, videos blasting from our smartphones. We hear all these things daily, but what does it mean to truly listen? In what sense do devices also listen to us? What is the role of silence in listening? How has listening changed over time? Can political tensions be solved through “listening”? How is listening both an art and a science? This Wide Lens event brings together...

Save the Date! Join us for a day of events to commemorate the lasting impact of the Wendell Johnson Speech & Hearing Center! More info to come.